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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Corn Magazines.

We were here told of a system of
storage for grain, long established, but
which was quite new to us, and which
as local expedient appears to possess
considerable merit. 1t seems that there
are what is called corn magazines or
ganized in various districts, to which
farmers may send a portion of their
surplus produce, and whence also they
may be supplied with loans of grain
when required. The depositors receive
at the rate of twelve and half per
cent increase upon their deposit of
grain for twelve months, and the bor-
rowers replace the quantities advanced
to them at the expiration of the same
period, paying an interest of twenty
five per cent in kind. The difference
in the amount of interest on the grain
received and that loaned pays the nee
cessary expenses of storage and of sus-
tanning the system. As the sole object
is the mutual benefit of all concerned,
no profit above actual expenses is de-
handed or considered to be desirable.
The necessity for these magazines is
owing to the precarious character of
the crops-a popularity of which is
that there may be an abundance in one
locality and partial or even total fail
ure of the crop in another, though they
may be separated by only a few miles
from each other. These granaries are
fostered by the government.-BalloWS
" Due NOrth.i
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
The Farmers Chance.

A Worcester county farmer writes to
the Ne,o England Farmer that he makes
nearly two tons of butter per year; that
he sells all he makes; that he gets a
price above the market, while his
neighbors put theirs in the stores for
what it will bring, and that they might
do as well as he does--that is, of course,
if they made as good butter, made it in
quantities to be depended upon, and
gained the reputation of making only
one quality This farmer is arguing
that there is place and profit for the
New England agriculturist if he will
produce concentrated, high-class prod
ucts, and deliver them fresh directly
to the consumer, as butter, eggs and
poultry. The supply is not equal to
the demand. The theory no one will
dispute. The Providence Journal says
"That it is capable of being put into
practice is shown not only in Massa-
chusetts, but in Rhode Island. Eggs
have been forty cents dozen; of the
best butter there is never any too much,
and, as to small fruits, save strawberries
for brief season, the consumer is ever
ready for the fresh, the attractive arti-
Gle" To preach all this and more the
state subsidies our several agricultural
es.-BostOn Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
AbOrting Cows.

The veterinarian of our esteemed eX-
change, the Ne,U England Homestead,
has been treating on this disease for
several weeks, giving his own latest
investigations and those of others on
the subject; and on careful study of
the matter as here presented we think
we knolC just about as much about the
cause or causes of the trouble as we
did before, which was simply nothing.
He finds water in the list of causes of
sporadic abortion, and says: Water
should be pure, containing no putrid
material-drainage for eXample-and in
winter should not be given in large
quantities to cows in calf unless its
temperature is raised to fifty degrees
or Whereabouts" Immediately we re-
membered how, when a boy, we drove
the cows once day through the driving
storms of winter some forty or fifty
rods from the barn and cut the ice in a
trough for them to take their twenty
four hours supply of water. We never
heard of abortion then; and the past
winter, though the water is in the barn
cellar, it was sometimes frozen over, but
we have some nice calves. We have not
suffered much from vivid lightning or
heavy thunder, which he puts as causes.
The use of weak male he puts as a
cause, and recommends not using one
over eighteen months old. "The use of
three-year-old bull is quite apt to be
followed by abortion"
Then follows some notice of the re-
port of the Royal Agricultural Society
of England, in which Mr.. j. b. John
son gives the result of his investiga-
tons, in which he concludes that of the
four hundred cases which he investi-
gated nearly all were caused by ergot
taken in the food. He says study OF
Mr.. Johnson's conclusions shows that
the unequivocal position taken by him
is arrived at by way of these Ito hii
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Questions Answered.

j. s., BURLINGTON.-T total num-
Der of troops mustered into service
during the Mexican war was 100,454
discharged by expiration of service,
52,l46, and for disability, 9,749. The
number of assertions were 6,724. The
Mexican war was from 1876 to 1S4S.
n. H.. ST. JoHNsBURY.-Lady nurses
are not entitled to pensions under the
general law for service in the hospitals
during the rebellion, and can only OBJ
tain pensions by special act of con-
gress. A number of such acts were
passed by the last congress and signed
by the President.
i. ID. S., WAITsFIELD.-Pres
Lincoln called for 100000 volunteers
July 10, 1861. Colonel Ellsworth was
shot at Alexandria, Va, May "a, 1861
General r. E. Lee was appointed COM
mander-in-chief of the rebel forces by
Jefferson Davis January 81, 1865.
President Lincoln held levee in jeff
erson Davis house April 4, 1865, the
next day after the evacuation of Rich
mOnd, but Davis was not captured I'M
til May 10, 1865, at Irwinville, Ga.
ID. T., SPRINGFIELD.-The attorney
WHO prosecuted your claim IOr pen
sion and received fee of S25 may have
been literally paid, as your claim was
based on wound, of which there was
record. In cases for pension on ac-
count of disability resulting from dis
ease the attorney generally earns his fee.
Then there is another side to this
question of fees that you may not have
considered In all cases where no
pension is granted the attorney re-
ceives no pay. a large majority of
lawyers refuse to engage in the prose-
cution of pension claims for the reason
that ordinary law business pays them
better.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Gambiing-.-Its Results.

A St. Louis paper estimates that within
eight years operators on the Chicago Board
of Trade have, through corners and other
schemes, stolen at least a thousand million
of dollars from the American people, which
has been raked in through gambling in the
necessaries of life. These gamblers are
sowing mere zephyr, but they may reap
perfect cyclone of anarchy. An exasperated
people do not delicately balance the scales
of Justice. If they find one side down they
go to the other extreme and down the other
side in retaliation.
We find the above in the Ne,O En-
qland Farmer, and have seen like items
floating about in the various papers,
but it is not quite clear to us how the
operators have stolen that or any
like amount from the people. We are
not very familiar with stock opera
tions" or gambling in " futures" and
we wish some of the city men-Brother
Whitaker, for instance-would explain
to us bow it is done. The effect of
most of their operations never reaches
either producer or consumer, and when
it does, if they put up wheat it helps
the farmer who has wheat to sell; if
they put down wheat, it helps the man
who has flour to buy. But the great
mass of gambling is done on wheat of
which never kernel changes hands.
1t is as fair gambling as deal in stocks,
betting on horse-race or on a game of
poker, and affects the whole people
Just about as much. One of the parties
will get squeezed and lose his money
and the other party get it to-day; to-
morrow the loser may be the winner,
and financially the salt of the earth are
no better or worse for the game. If the
Chicago Board of Trade has stolen a
thousand millions of dollars, where's
the Doodle? Who has got the money?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
No Onion MaggOts for Thirty Years.

In the summer of 1858 l became
convinced, by close inspection of the
seed under magnifer, that the egg of
the onion maggot was deposited in the
blossom and taken up in the seed of
the onion to hatch as that terminated.
Hence | concluded that any course
which would destroy the vitality of the
egg or its product would prove an effec-
tual remedy. Accordingly l soaked
the seed in a strong decoction of cay
enne pepper for twenty-four hours be-
fore planting. After straining off the
liquid l mixed the seed thoroughly in
sifted wood ashes-a quart of ashes to
a paper of scotland sowed it, ashes
and all, which prevented the onions
coming up too thick. l have pursued
this course every year since, and have
never seen an onion maggot in the beds.
My neighbors have adopted it with the
same success.-Mrs. j. c. Smalley, in
HOmeStedd
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Feeding Calves.

The milk of the mother, drawn from
the udder by the calf, is the best and
most natural food that calf can have,
but economical and other considera-
tons come in to prevent this natural
method of bringing up calves, although
it may be practiced by breeders of pure
blood stock. Among the dairymen the
cream or considerable part of the
milk may be desired, and so natural
methods must be supplanted by some
acceptable artificial one. 1t is better,
if calf is to be raised, to learn it to
drink, and to do this as soon as possible
after it is dropped; then, after II gets a
good start by the use of full new-milk,
its food may be gradually changed by
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
FOdder.COrn...Again.

Mr.. EditOr Il read an article in a recent
issue of the WATCHMAN on "Fodder-Corn,
from e. r. Towle; and would like TO ask
which you would consider the best, San
ford's or the Stowell Evergreen? | have
raised the latter for years, and consider it
the best crop on the farm. put it in with
a horse-planter, in drills, and want the
stalks to stand about four inches apart;
then they will ear and when cut before frost
comes make most valuable fodder for fall
and early winter. Cut and gathered into
large stocks, it keeps well on the ground
till well into winter, and | have failed to
find any fodder that would make the same
flow of milk as that. | usually run the
smoothing-harrow over the piece just be-
fore it comes up and once or twice after
wards; then the cultirator three or four
times and hoe it once. Is the Sanford corn
any better? If so, wherein? Very re-
specially. RoLLIN c. SMITH.
Florence Pittsford) April %, 1887.
REMARKs.-In reply to Mr.. Smiths
inquiry, we will say we have never
used Stowell's Evergreen corn as field
crop. lie DdulOru COTu we nave lOullu
very sweet in the stalk and of much
more leafy growth than any other kind
we have ever raised, The first time it
was ever brought much into prominent
notice was at the winter meeting of the
Dairymen's Association at Milton,
when the late DR.. Hathaway spoke of
it in the highest terms. 1t was at first
supposed from his emphatic endorse
ment that he had some speculative in
terest in it, but it appeared that he was
booming it on its merits, and where in
our acquaintance it has once been used
it has always been kept up. Our Pom
fret dairymen have spoken very highly
of it. Its treatment would not vary
greatly from that described by Mr..
Smith, except that we should put it at
least eight inches apart in the rows.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Evacuation and Burning of Atlanta.

Meantime Sherman had ordered all
the inhabitants to leave the city. Those
who wished to 90 north were furnished
with transportation for themselves and
baggage. About $500 avaied them
selves of this offer and the remainder
were sent south under flag of truce
and continued to link their fortunes
with those of the confederacy. Sherman
had started from Chattanooga with very
nearly 10000 men, and his losses up
to the time of entering Atlanta were
little over 10000. He had received re-
endorsements from time to time, and in
turn had sent back a considerable force
to assist Thomas in the defence of
Nashville: so that when he cut loose
from Atlanta he had not far from 10 900
men under his command. Having col
lected what supplies he could, he de-
stroyed the railroad north of him, and,
cutting loose from all communication,
we started on that most remarkable
campaign which is known in history as
" Sherman's march to the sea-" and
which has been immortalized in song
as " Marching through Georgia" On
the 10Th day of November, 1864, we
broke camp, and turning our faces to the
east began to march to-we did not
know where. Little did think when,
a few years before, looked at picture
of burning Moscow, which Napoleon
said was the grandest sight the world
ever beheld, that | should soon see a
similar one. Reaching little rise of
ground at a distance from the city we
halted for rest, and, turning to take ii
last look, we beheld column of black
smoke rising to the sky. Then another
column of smoke arose and another and
another, until it seemed that they all
merged together and the whole city
was in flames. Great beetling towers
of smoke rose higher and higher. Lurid
tongues of flame leaped out here and
there, or, serpent-like, seemed to raise
their heads and uncol in the smoke;
and again they would run together and
form sheets of flame, which rose high
aloft and, breaking, sent fiery couriers
into the sky. The jet-black smoke of
the southern pine, of which the city
was mostly built, spread and thickened
until it covered the whole sky and
actually made the day dark. " Forward
march," and we passed on, leaving the
4" Gate City" behind-a gate city no
longer Var Memories
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Soldiers Budget.
Pensions Granted.

To Milo X. Gray, Thomaston, c.,
formerly of Waterbury, VT, so month
and $56S arrears; Jabez p. Holden,
Wolcott, S12 month and $500 arrears
Dexter T. Larkin, Tunbridge, so a
month and 1912 arrears; Captain Henry
G. Lull, Montpelier, "a month and
Sl3S arrears; L. T. Lille, West Ran
dolph, S4 month and $50 arrears;
Harry Peak, Chelsea, S4 a month and
sos arrears; Lewis Rodney, Mont
pelier, an increase from 50 to IS a
month and about 500 arrears; Thomas
Sanders, Waitsfeld, an increase to SS
a month, after an appeal to the secre-
tary of the interior, and $3.50 arrears;
Ira F. Whitaker, Mortified, "a a
month and 81 ,055 arrears.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04

AN Illinois dairyman relates this ex-
perience From the 9TH to the 10th of
this month my milk shrunk from eight
hundred fifty-five pounds to seven hun
dred fifty pounds. asked my foreman
about the feed, water and care of cows.
He said he was doing all he knew how
to do to keep up the yield of milk.
at last discovered the cause in change
of hay. | had been feeding the second
crop of clover, and the last of it was
fed on the 4th of the month. The
change was to the last cut of the first
crop, though it was good hay. l have
repeatedly had the same experience
when have changed from early-cut to
late-cut hay."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04

A CORRESPONDENT writes to the
Canadian Horticult,Wist the result of
his sojourn in England: 81 find that
American apples are generally packed
better than Canadian, especially those
coming from the northeastern states,
aud also from New York State. 1t is a
grand mistake to think that British
buyers will not find small, wormy,
spotted apples if we put them in the
center of a barrel. They turn the en-
tire contents out when judging any
new or old trademark or shipper, and
woe to him who is found out this way"
1t has been claimed that Yankees
cheated badly in the packing of fruit,
and it is gratifying to be assured that
the claim does not now hold against us.
1t may not be matter of congratula-
tions, but if the Canadians are not so
honest as we are it is right for them to
have the credit that properly belongs
to them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04

substituting skim-milk and linseed or
flaxseed Cruel, or it may also be fed
with oatmeal, ground reasonably fine,
with the hulls bolted or sifted out.
The only point to be considered is to
secure a ration that is as rich as the
new milk of the COW. Boil a pint of
flaxseed or oil-meal in ten or twelve
quarts of water and then mix this with
skim-mik in the proportion of about
one part to three, feeding blood-warm.
Use occasionally little oatmeal; if
there is a tendency to scour for two or
three meals, give in the milk quart of
common wheat flour. Pea-meal is good
with skim-mlk. In this way the rich
ness of the milk removed by Swimming
is restored, and even its value increased
if desired Ge,mdnto,Cn Telegraph.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucus surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on
prescription from reputable physicians,
as the damage they will do are ten-fold
to the good you can possibly derive
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. j. Cheney x Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, contains no mercury
and is taken internally and acts directly
upon the blood and mucus surfaces of
the system. In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure that you get the genuine.
1t is taken internally and made in To-
ledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co.
CO Sold by druggists; price seventy
five cents per bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04

EDMUND HERsEY says; Small
potatoes for seed do not run out. do
not know small seed to be better than
large, but for six years they have held
their own and given good crops. When
whole seed is planted the crop will be
from seven to ten days earlier and the
results will be better. A cord of ma
nure gives more plant-food than the
chemist finds in it because of its me-
chanical action, which gives it value
a third greater than he puts upon it,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04

THE bilious, dyspeptic, constipated,
should address, with ten cents in stamps
for treatise, Worlds Dispensary Med
ical Association, 663 Main street, Buff
falo, n. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04

BRIGHT, healthy babies are the joy
of every house. To thousands de-
prived of their natural nutriment no
food is so we'll adapted and will prove
so perfect a substitute for mothers
milk as the Lactated Food.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04

THE teaching of skilled labor must be
esteemed by intelligent minds, in this
age of object-teaching, as of paramount
importance in any technical school.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
For Sale!

A FARM Of 1850 acres of good land; good house
n well finished and convenient; good barns and
outbuildings; cuts fifty tons of hay four miles
from depot and village. Price only 81 800. For
particular description write to or inquire of DENNIS
LANE, Montpelier, Vt.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-04-13
ELEXCMO. SR. D. JOSEF. VERGEz.

Hemos sido honrados CON Ia
atenta y cortes vista de este dis
tinguido Diputado a Cortes por 81
Partido Union Constitutional de
Cuba, que en- Ell vapor directo de-
10 regres6 ala Peninsula, en- cum.
plimiento de los deberes que lie
impone su alta investidura. En-
el setior Vergez, con quien hemos
departido largamente sobre asun
tos politicos y economicos de la
mayor Antilla, hemos saludado,
ademas, al antique & ilustrado
principal redactor del reputadisi.
mo peri6dico DiariO de la Marina
yal, hasta ha POGO, celoso y muy
inteligente Secretario de aquel tan
grande como patri6tico Partido,
Despu3s de conocer al senior Yer.
gez, nos explicamos la merecida
reputation y simpatias de que
disfruta en- aquella Isla, donde hs
dado tantas pruebas de su com
petencia y patriotismo, recibien
do, q gu vez, muy honrosas y Sc
fialadas distinciones.
Conseryaremos de 81 gratos re
cuerdos, y deseamosle arribe feliz
mente 4 la madre patria, en- com
pafiia de su distinguida familia
que le acompafia.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-04-13
ESCOFINA LOSADA.

Acaba de llegar d esta capital un repre-
sentante del autor de la "Escofna Losada,"
Instruments tan it'll como sen lilo, y de tan
facil inofensiva aplicacion, que 10 mismo
pueden usarlo los ciegos que los que tienen
vista, para hacer desaparecer en- ell acto toda
callosidad, sin dolor nj riesgo alguno
Este inapreciable invento viene precedido
de gran reputation tanto de Espaia, pals del
inventor, como de otras varias naciones enque
Sc expende con ell mismo buen resultado. Y
con oh ;eto de que ell pdblico no erea que Sc
tratra de hacerle victima del charlatanismo,
que por desgracia tanto abunda, dichos repre-
sentantes las haran repartir domicilio dejar
las por "a horas, para que ell pdblico las ensa-
ye su gusto en- este tempo, pueda cerclo-
rarse practicamente de que la efcacia de la
Escofna Losada no deja lugar duda.-
En- las "a horas que Sc hallen en- poder del
publico, pueden usarlas en- toda callosldad y
u1as gordas sin que esten obligados que
darse con elias, pudiendo comprarlas devol-
verlas, al tempo de ser recogidas por los re-
partidores, segin la voluntad de cada cual.
Ell inventor de Ia Escoina Losada" hace
prcsente a; pdblico, que su invencion es mas
bien humanitaria que lucrativa, en- virtud a 10
reducido de su precio, "a IS y d 25 centavos),
pues proporciona ell bienestar de los pies, por
espacio de u2o dos amos, que es 10 qua viene
durar una "Escofna usandola una sola
persona.
Dep6sito general, Fonda "La Espahola,
en- la Marina. 40
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-04-13
BSTABLECIMIENT0 BALNRARlO
DE LA VILLA DE COAMO
PuertO.Ri

Aguas Minero- Medicinales, Sudori-
ficas, Lsxantes, DiGreticas, Estimu-
lsntes, T6nicas. Aplicables a diversas
Intermediates. Especiales para la Gu
raci6n del Reumatismo en- todas sus
formas y de las Erupciones cutaueas.
Bafios medicinales q diversas tempera-
turss. Aparatos de duchas. Habita-
clones c6modas con timbre electrico.
para familias. Servicio esmerado, Ia
y "a categoria.
Precios, segun tarifa. Servicio de
coches para cnalquie punto de la Isls.
Correo diario sin remuneration alguna.
TELEGRAPH oombinado, linea de Coamo.
Como hs empezado va la temporada
de 'os Bahos, sc hace presente que ell Els
tablecimiento Balne; rio esta provisto de
inmejorables sirvientes y cocineros.
Debe advertirse, sdemas, q las fami-
lias que necesiten de los BInos y quie-
ran alojamiento independence del Ho,
tel, que entire las me)oras efectuadas
cuentase Ia de una msgnifica casa, es-
paciosa, elegante, ventilada, que brinda
excelente comodidsd q los seflores
baflistas. 80
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-04-13
ASOCIACI6N DE- MAESTROS.

En- Ia noche del dltimo domin.
20 tuvo efecto, en- ell salon de
Sesiones del Excmo. Ayunta-
miento de esta ciudad, la distri.
buci6n solemne dc los premios
que ha conferido Ia Association de
Maestros q los Profesores que
mas sc han distinguido en- su cello,
amor y laboriosidad en- pro de las
Cajas de Ahorro Escolares de
esta provincis.
Ocupada Ia Presidencia de ho-
nor, q nombre de 8. E., por el
limo. Sr. Secretario del Gobier-
no General, y alberta Ia session,
ley6se Ia Memoria reglamentaria
de Ia Association citada, y des
pues de repartidas las medallat
& los profesores premiados, ell Sc.
nor Cuevas, Presidente de aque'
lla, ley6 un bien pensado discur'
80 aluelvO al acto.
En- el uso de la palabra el sefiol
Eecretario del Gobierno, don Ju'
lio D. Bazdn, pronuncio un eIo
cuentisimo discurso, tanto ma
notable, cuanto que fue improvi
sado. Con 81 arrebat6 4 ID con
currencia, revelando admirabIeI
dotes oratorias. De 81 hemoi
dido grandes elogios. Reciba nues
tgo splauso.